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The Coventry Blitz (blitz: from the German word Blitzkrieg meaning "lightning war" listen ⓘ) was a series of bombing raids that took place on the British city of Coventry. The city was bombed many times during the Second World War by the German Air Force . The most devastating of these attacks occurred on the evening of 14 November 1940 and ...
The bombing campaign was known in the UK as "the Blitz", and ran from September 1940 through to May 1941. The Coventry Blitz and the Belfast Blitz were two of the heaviest of all bombings by the Luftwaffe, killing 568–1,000 civilians of Coventry, killing over 1,100 civilians in Belfast, and destroying much of both city centres.
The Coventry raid was followed by three consecutive nights (19–22 November) of attacks on Birmingham and other Black Country industrial towns including West Bromwich, Dudley and Tipton. [24] [23] [25] Coventry city centre following 14/15 November 1940 raid. The change in enemy tactics led to HAA guns being moved from London to the West Midlands.
On the night of 14/15 November 1940, following a heavy Luftwaffe air raid consisting of 437 aircraft dropping 394 tons of high explosives and 127 parachute mines (part of the Coventry Blitz), [2] Moss led two rescue attempts on houses which had been destroyed by a high explosive bomb. Managing to free three people trapped in the rubble in the ...
The 11th Anti-Aircraft Division (11th AA Division) was an air defence formation of the British Army during the early years of the Second World War.It defended the West Midlands during The Blitz, including the notorious raid on Coventry, and the subsequent Baedeker Blitz, but only had a short career.
Delivery After Raid (1940). Delivery After Raid, also popularly known as The London Milkman, is a black and white photograph taken by Fred Morley on 9 October 1940. [1] The image shows a milkman making his delivery along a street with buildings destroyed by German bombers during The Blitz in Holborn, Central London.
The Blitz was a German bombing campaign against the United Kingdom, for eight months, from 7 September 1940 to 11 May 1941, during the Second World War. [4]The Germans conducted mass air attacks against industrial targets, towns, and cities, beginning with raids on London, towards the end of the Battle of Britain in 1940 (a battle for daylight air superiority, between the Luftwaffe and the ...
The Second Great Fire of London in December 1940 was caused by one of the most destructive air raids of the Blitz during World War II. The Luftwaffe raid caused fires over an area greater than that of the Great Fire of London in 1666, [2] leading one American correspondent to say in a cable to his office that "The second Great Fire of London has begun". [3]